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Smiley's People( 1982)

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Overview

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

  1. John le Carré

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Alec Guinness

    George Smiley

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    Anthony Bate

    Oliver Lacon

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    Beryl Reid

    Connie Sachs

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    Andy Bradford

    Ferguson

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    Tusse Silberg

    Alexandra Ostrakova

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    Germaine Delbat

    Madame La Pierre

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    Mario Adorf

    Claus Kretzschmar

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    Michael Lonsdale

    Anton Grigoriev

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    Michael Gough

    Mikhel

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    Alan Rickman

    Mr. Brownlow

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Miniseries

1982 | 6 Episodes

Miniseries of Smiley's People premiered on Sep 20 1982

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A review by CinemaSerf

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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Oct 27 2024
When "Madame Ostrakova" (Eileen Atkins) is accosted by a man as she tries to board a bus, we discover that she has a secret Soviet past that saw her flee, leaving her daughter in Moscow. Faced with a difficult choice, she contacts the one man who might be able to help. That's "Gen. Vladimir" (Curd Jürgens) who just happens to have some links with the once again retired "Smiley" (Sir Alec Guinness) who is drafted out of his intellectual slumbers to piece together a mystery that involves his own wife "Lady Ann" (Siân Phillips), his arch nemesis "Karla", this woman and her abandoned daughter. John...

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Facts

Status

Ended

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • spy
  • based on novel or book
  • miniseries
  • intelligence agent